Lobotomy

healthcare

In the era when psychosurgery was common, clinicians and patients hoped for meaningful relief from severe agitation, anxiety, or psychosis when asking: were there any successful...

Guides And Explainers

As a neurosurgical procedure popularized in the mid-20th century, the lobotomy of Kennedy represents a stark intersection of psychiatric treatment, public celebrity, and histori...

Celebrity Profiles

Anthony Perkins lobotomy claims circulate widely, often misrepresenting a complex psychiatric history as a sensational anecdote. In verified detail, Perkins did not receive a st...

Celebrity Profiles

Lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure once used to treat severe mental illness by disrupting connections in the brain’s prefrontal circuits. For actor Anthony Perkins, the ter...